Here I am again, trying to keep on uploading my blog once a week. Today, I want to show you another floral card (yes, it’s spring and I love it). In this case, I have created my card inspired by the current challenge at La Pareja Creativa blog (it’s a Spanish crafting company and they have really beautiful products). In their challenge, you have to get inspired by a picture that they show you; it’s a picture of a beautiful field full of poppies and with blue skies; but it will better if you see it by yourselves. Also, you still have time to join their challenge.

And here is my card. I have used stamps and coordinated dies from WPlus9, the set is called “Fresh cut florals” and I love it. I hope you like my card and, as always, it inspires you to create something beautiful.

Yes, I know it. I haven’t been here for a while, but now I am back and I hope I will be able to update my blog more frequently. Today I want to share with you my last card, it is quite simple, but I think it’s fresh and springlike. With this card I want to join the 127 challenge at Lawnscaping Challenge blog: Beautiful Florals. If you haven’t joined them jet you still have time to try.

And here is my card. I have created it with an old stamp set from Lawn Fawn called Flutter By and I have also used one of their new amazing paper collections: Perfectly Plaid. I love it. For the sentiment I have used another old stamp set: Life is Good. I hope you like it and, as always, I hope you feel inspired too.

I think it’s quite simple, but I hope you like it; I don’t know why, but lately I am in love with this color combo: red and duck blue is the perfect couple for me. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!

Hi! Today I want to share with you a different project. Until now, most of my work has been cardmaking. Doing cards is where I feel more confident, where I can create without worrying about anything, design freely. But I have always felt attracted by LOs (Lay Outs); I love watching the wonderful designs that are out there and I always get trapped when I see a process video, but I have never done anyone for me. So I have decided to start now and the best way to do it is creating a LO about myself, about myself now, how I feel now, how I am living this step of my life.

I haven’t developed a routine yet so it’s a little hard for me to start designing, and I have found out that following challenges makes it easier, their rules help me to be focused and to create a point where to start. For my first LO I am following the current FSN (Fiebre de Scrapbook por la Noche) challenge. This is a very interesting blog full of great and inspiring projects. If you don’t know it you should go and take a look.

The truth is that it’s perfect for my picture. It’s a picture where I don’t look too cool, but I like it because of the memories that come to my mind when I see it and also because even though I’m not too beautiful in it, I look happy, slept (it was 8 o’clock in the morning of my last birthday), but happy.

I hope you like it and above all, you’ll be inspired by it and try to create your own LOs because lately that we are always taking pictures, the truth is that few of them are printed, most of them stay inside our phones or computers and I feel sad about it. Thank you very much for stopping by. See you soon!

Hi! Today I want to talk to you about something that I suppose many of you already know, it’s about the challenge that Jennifer McGuire has created for this November. It is: “Share Handmade Kindness”. If you want to know more about this wonderful initiative, just click the image below.

The card that I show you is for Jennifer’s first week challenge, I know it comes a little late, but I created it for someone who follows my blog and I didn’t want to ruin the surprise, for that I have had to wait until she has received it to share it. This is the card:

Halloween was around the corner so I was surrounded by inspiration and I thought it would be a good idea to try something fun and scary with my cute stamps. I found these ones from Mama Elephant that I think were perfect for the project. So I stamped them and drew their faces as if they were Mexican sugar skulls. I have painted them with Prismacolor pencils and Souffle markers from Sakura. I have made the sentiment with Quinn’s ABCs stamp set from Lawn Fawn and the paper for the background is from “Hello Sunshine”, also from Lawn Fawn.

With this card I join the challenges from two blogs: YoY Scrap and Mama Elephant. The challenge from Yoy Scrap blog is all about “cute creatures” and the one from Mama Elephant is to create something and send it (following Jennifer McGuires kindness challenge). If you are interested in them, just click over the pictures below and you will see all the info, you still have time to join them.

The fall has just started and always happen to me that I don’t even realize it when I find myself at Christmas. This year I don’t want to be as stressed as others years and I have decided to start making my Christmas cards now. This way, when the date arrives, I just have to write and send them. The current challenge at “The Craft Barn” is about Christmas and snow (or snowflakes) and I thought it would be great to have it as a base for my first card. It’s a very easy and simple card mostly created with stencils. I hope you like it and you know that every comment is welcome. Thanks for stopping by!

When I saw it, the first image that came to my mind was a bukeh and I decided to try it because I had never found the chance to do it before. The truth is that this card isn’t completely my style, but I like how it has come out and is good sometimes do something different and explore new fields. I’ quite happy with the result.

It’s a really easy technique and you don’t need too much to do it. I have created the background with watercolors, I have used Kuretake Gansai Tambi, but you can choose anyone. For the circles I have created my own stencil fuzzy cutting handwritten circles in a piece of copy paper (yes, that’s it), and used a sponge and white pigment ink. I prefer to start with the big ones because this way you can fill the gaps with the smaller ones. Also, as your circles are smaller they should be darker to create the effect. To do it, in my smaller circles I have put a second layer of ink (when the first one was dry).

The sentiment is from Lawn Fawn “Life is good” stamp set and I have added some Pretty Pink Posh clear sequins in both 6 and 4 mm to give some sparkle to my card. I hope you like it and give a try to the technique; it’s very easy and I think that the result is really forgiving. Thanks for stopping by and see you soon!